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he with me thank you very much for joining us today. there were talks to the. deal with its creditors to avoid financial ruin is a price to pay people with more than one hundred thousand euros in the country's second largest bank will see a chunk taken away. reports from. it's really been a last minute. trying to meet but monday twenty fifth of march deadline.

coming up liquidity will be a restructuring of the country's second largest bank here capital a bank of cyprus lowkey know what's going to happen is going to be having to create the concept of the good bad bad bad so first of all those are the plans that so below one hundred thousand euros will be protected and a move to transfer to the bank of cyprus that is the largest lender of the country well. above one hundred thousand euros will be taking a last. holders a class. now after the sun some day but they are such a bank it imposed a limit to what loads of people can take from a.t.m.'s i was a one hundred you will remember so we can see the cash back ok the problem still is we felt here at the ground the people are still really really frustrated and really

anxious of what's going to be happening already seeing the staff and family members of loci bible run that is now is effectively going to be closed they've already been protesting into the streets and. drabs. many people here feel this kind of saving the banks is not actually sending the people of cyprus you know the president of the country this is a deal that would be pleasing to the people of cyprus but really be a reality but you see on the ground worst worst also a lot of frustration and the fact that. the capital controls the movement of the assets of the access to the money so the people here are just rude about the fact that they don't have cash in hand it's very difficult to access whether their savings are still going to be substantial and so we can expect the people here will laugh to be welcome melissa rivers open arms. reporting right now the cyprus rescue package approval has eased fears of

a banking collapse but it's actually raised hopes that attention can move towards some kind of recovery for the small island economy however let's see what kind of repercussions the deal may have for the rest of europe i suppose a worst case scenario here nervous investors fear that a president ultimately could pull their money from banks in other countries also the issue that say was could just cause a run on the banks in cyprus feeding their money is safe in their own hands than perhaps digitised up in some banking system or if they do pull out their money that's going to hit the capital the banks need to hold and could ultimately trigger another world scale credit freeze was certainly none of this is helping the e.u.'s public reputation talk about mounting euros skepticism at the moment sixty seven percent of cypriots want to leave the block financial adviser warren told us that the hardships of the small cyprus economy are actually part of the much bigger crisis. we're talking. one five million people

but in reality this is a problem which has not been addressed since two thousand and seven two thousand and eight and previous to that with the issuance of huge amounts of debt into the system and in the united states. the only recourse which exists is to tap the remaining collateral in the system which is the saving sooner or later if you keep on stealing savings you're going to have asked it something which is irrelevant in a country that has one point five million people. in france. they are not as strong financially as germany i mean. countries being the test to see whether savings can be stolen.

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boris berezovsky made his fortune after the breakup of the soviet union a hugely controversial character now we've heard in an interview that with a party given by mr brzezinski his latest friday the day before he died in a conversation with a journalist he talked of his longing to return home to russia we've also heard from the russian president's press a cache he said that he months ago the president received a letter from verizon we can take

a listen now to what that said. true. some time ago maybe some two months ago but it's sent a letter to putin himself saying that he admits that he made a lot of mistakes. to forgive him for these mistakes and also asked putin for a transfer. this letter did exist pretty dismal certainly the picture i think being built up of mr burns all ski in his final years quite aside quite a lonely picture he was a larger than life characters that seem somewhat reduced in recent years now he's had a number of high profile court cases here in the case the most recent of which is with greyman abramoff it and people have described not just the psychological impact of losing that court case which we've quite humiliation the midst of a bit of also the financial impact is well as he said the picture coming out of him

and he certainly had seem to express in his final days a longing to return home and of course that hasn't happened and he is now the subject of the own going investigation here into his. reporting that he was starting at the top of russia's political life back in the ninety's a wash with money and power. to discuss the tycoons like you see with people about of course the host of all cost. boris berezovsky here man who absolutely made a fortune as they say during the ninety's or told you stay in russia you stole it let's be clear here is that although he didn't make this no even a woman i mean it pilate a manipulator ok he used the system what was happening in russia the political system had collapsed the economy had collapsed belief in authority had collapsed everything it was in collapse so he picked up pieces all the all over the place so . he didn't generate wealth you store wealth let's be clear about what they can you can you talk about in the end because you know talking off air about the the rule

of seven of bankers that came out of houses where the term of darkness came and i think was better software that invented it essentially that in one thousand nine hundred six a small number of people with a community an enormous wealth but they wanted more and they said to yeltsin we'll get you reelected which have to give me shares in state institutions and barrel flot eccentric cetera and he did it he gave the economy away so he ruled over very little had no power and because off he was at the top of the hill so this is how he generated his wealth ok he didn't earn it but now you talk about a wealthy man you've met and there's yes ome arrogant he was full of themself ok but a lot of security around him an enormous amount of security he was paranoid for good reason there were attempts on his life and he left because he was worried for his life ok he took his money with him or at least a good part of it it's all the self-imposed exile in learned it was what i saw it asleep it was an escape he left it was he would have been charged with all kinds of

criminal offenses all the reservation self-preservation not going to get out of and then revenge ok what about what about one of the you know one of the high profile cases was how did we mustn't let it then go the polonium poisoning work for a bit of skin so listening to words with. in what capacity to look for dirt to look for dirt on politicians out of college and yes of course that was his job let's let's bring it up at his office he meeting at. all of which in court are we talking about billions you know massive massive legal deceit it was a really huge gamble on the part of betters of what was it again going to have one shred of evidence that would one sheet of paper to prove he can get caught would not make it work absolutely why gamble so he would say he knew i am just coming you know the end is coming he was running out of money you think he was running out of money is broke because a lot of people question how much he was breathing point one billion i doubt it ever you doubt it so do you think it was a call back also with up a mortgage to maybe others that basically by step by step broken down he died alone

interesting alone no friends is his wife and had little respect he lost his money he'd lost the respect he wasn't able to come home because we had heard recently that he had been trying to come back to moscow even penning a little illusional delusional do you think he wanted to come back or not i think he wanted to come back and as forgiveness no it was never going to happen. he certainly became a fierce critic of the kremlin since he moved to the u.k. a colonist married to jeff ski from the independent newspaper believes that some foreign officials in britain could see this as a chance to help improve russia u.k. relations. i don't think he particularly was a serious threat to the kremlin. i think that. fancied himself as a threat and maybe he wanted to be more of a threat than actually he was. but the position that he held through the second half of the ninety's in russia obviously made him like the figure of that period

the figure of berezovsky his position when he died this weekend and the contrast between that and his position of power and influence in the late ninety's illustrates in some ways how russia has changed and how much russia has changed in those five ten years i think elsewhere behind the scenes in places like foreign office in the corridors of government they'll be you know i won't say they'll be doing something as improper as sort of dancing in the aisles but it is off it was a very awkward figure he was a big obstacle to diplomacy with russia and i think his death will be seen as i hope anyway as maybe removing an obstacle to better relations with russia why for moscow this is arts he and we are following the ongoing hunger strike at guantanamo bay prison but later in the program we report on the protest now entering its forty eighth day lawyers say over one hundred inmates are refusing food risking their

health and lives not much is being said about it in america's main media are those details just ahead for you. technology innovation. developments around russia. the future.

more news today. these are the images. from the streets of canada. opposition coalition chief said that he was quoting. not to accept his resignation and the. government forces using chemical weapons against them. the syrian opposition says that forces loyal to the syrian president bashar assad

fired what they are claiming a chemical weapons at rebels surrounding an army base in the town of address on the outskirts of the syrian capital of damascus now the reports we have all that two rebel fighters were killed and some twenty two people were wounded it comes in light of accusations last week in which both sides accuse the other of using chemical weapons in any mysterious explosion near the city of aleppo which killed some twenty six people and wounded dozens of that incident was swiftly labeled by western intelligence agencies as a chemical incident perpetrated by forces loyal to the syrian president assad the syrian regime osce the united nations to launch an investigation the russian ministry has said that if there are reasons to believe that chemical weapons in fact were used an international group comprising of permanent united nations security council members has to be sent to syria the american president barack obama he has constantly in the past put the issue of chemical weapons on the table

saying that a red line needs to be gone and when he was here in the region recently he was quick to make harsh statements towards the syrian president over allegedly uses of chemical weapons once we establish the facts i have made clear that the use of chemical weapons is a game changer i am deeply skeptical of any claim that in fact it was the opposition that used chemical weapons we now have information to the contrary regarding the incident last week in the lead israel's leading daily newspaper ha'aretz whites that it was definitely not a chemical check carried out by the syrian president assad what we're seeing more is that the syrian opposition is deeply divided the leader of the opposition was hot tips resignation comes just months after his election now his decision to leave is being seen as a blow to the diminishing. uprising against the syrian president bashar assad there have been the possible and long number of resignations within the coalition itself

by top opposition figures is what we see more and more is that the rebels are able to organize themselves and i'm able to consolidate the military and political bodies and increasingly it's clear that this no direct link between the fighters on the ground in the coalition that is the in built of rule which is the concern now is that more radical islamist groups might pull this void that is being lifted by the resignation of the leadership and at the same time it looks increasingly like no one's particularly interested in sitting down and having dialogue with the syrian president bashar assad also the u.k. and france recently suggested that a weapons involved on syria has to be lifted to the rebels as we see now the initiative hasn't been given any kind of green light so growing concern what is happening inside syria or the just about all the odds you will dubbed for now though the hunger strike among prisoners at guantanamo bay now into day forty eight

with the plot is still struggling to go on a wider attention lawyers say over one hundred inmates are refusing food and the concern about their deteriorating health a prison officials continue to downplay the protest and there's little coverage if any in the u.s. media is more important this story. as you should be in the world of twenty four hour news no country knows the power of media better than the us hard to believe it's been ten years since the shock and awe campaign that launched the iraq war probably we could have removed saddam hussein in another way that would not have been so damaging to america i mean a man had to go ten years later the killing continues in iraq without also continuing without adding that mass hunger strike at the guantanamo bay detention center but that topic remains off the radar of mainstream news and hid it from the american public no i do not know to i had no idea. really according to the center

for constitutional rights one hundred thirty kuantan of the prisoners began a life threatening hunger strike nearly seven weeks ago to protest treatment and conditions at the island prison a prison america's president promised would be closed at the start of twenty ten do you think that that's a topic that should be reported by u.s. media yeah i think so. because they are being kept in prison by the u.s. so it's only fair that they get their views expressed that's what the whole country's built on the freedom of information to do that i mean i just think it's the right thing to do time square is otherwise known as the mecca of media messages millions walk through here on a daily basis flooded with information through news seekers plasma screens and advertisements but as we've learned even the most important stories can be ignored that nobody else is talking about this subject if this were happening in russia if

people had disappeared into a legal black hole in russia and were facing indefinite incarceration without trial without draw arch without. we'd never hear the end of it the western media would be full of it human rights watch on the stands on national they'd be screaming from the. both dogs of westminster behind me but because this is an american crime because it's an american crime they're allowed to get away with it because the people who control the so-called mainstream media are fully on side with the agenda of the obama administration top u.s. general down calling for hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade the u.s. detention facility when c.n.n. finally turned its focus to get this so-called worldwide leader in news nor to the hunger strike is there anything wrong with trying to improve it fix it spend a few hundred million dollars to get it ready for maybe a new generation of terrorists instead focusing on the money. to update the

facility where one hundred sixty six detainees are still languishing you know that more than half of the. kuantan now have been cleared for release i use the area. know i didn't i had no idea that. i did. as more than one hundred prisoners reportedly continue their hunger strike the u.s. military continues to dispute the figures however when r.t. first broke the story on march twelfth u.s. officials were denying that a strike was even taking place as you recall they started off by saying no one's on a hunger strike just the five or six people who have been on a hunger strike for many years you know then that figure was revised up to fourteen and now we're seeing the figure steadily increasing but to nowhere near the extent that the that the prison lawyers are talking about and i think you know hearing about how the lawyers are not being allowed to visit plus this big gulf between

what the lawyers are saying and what the administration is saying is indicative of the administration still trying to clamp down on me and they don't want this story aired and i think that that means that there is a very big story going on but in the business of broadcast news u.s. networks have to prioritize which big stories deserve the most attention that's right the canadians are using farming to combat smoking nancy grace first of all i want to express my condolences what happened to your necklace former president bill clinton gets his way actress ashley judd will never be a united states senator. part of new york hollywood liberal. starting with fronts where demonstrators against the same sex marriage bill had to be dispersed with tear gas tempted to break through court on and on to the shores of it's estimated that three hundred thousand people turned out against the bill which has been approved by the parliament support for same sex marriage is waning

in france although most of the anger was that leaders for prioritizing it over the issues of jobs and the economy. and us a secretary of state john kerry has arrived enough. gana stan on an unannounced trip to see the country's president hamid karzai carries a twenty four hour visit is expected to cover continued u.s. support amid concern that causes increasingly anti american rhetoric may be jeopardizing efforts against extremism the u.s. is preparing to hand over full security responsibility to afghan officials. south africa's confirmed that thirteen of its soldiers were killed and twenty seven injured during intense fighting with the rebels in the central african republic over the weekend as rebels captured the capital bangui that was on sunday forcing the president to flee the diamond rich country reports say that south african troops are also being pulled from the region by the rebels actions have been

condemned by the un security secretary general. and britain's prime minister has announced a massive immigration crackdown which could restrict welfare payments including that of a social housing and health care david cameron and laid into what he called the something for nothing culture of those arriving in the u.k. and once the numbers of people allowed in to be heavily reduced is last name the new e.u. member states like paul garia and romania are about to join the agreement allowing free movement under throughout the. order to secure it out see it will be a partner in china round out of the week's supporting evidence.

almost since the new pope was chosen the calls for reform are analysts everyone wants the new pope to allow this and to allow that but the problem is that the catholic church is a religion not a product and people don't like the way a pepsi bottle looks while the company will have to in theory change it to meet public demand but the pope claims to represent the will of the creator of the universe the pope supposedly holds and protects an ancient an eternal truth so how can you expect this eternal truth just up and change because of public demand even though they pretend like adult religions do change over time but how can you expect the pope after hundreds of years of saying that people would be condemned to the fires of hell and eternity in the charred walls of the damned for certain sins just now say well i guess those sins are ok if you are catholic and you want your religion to change constantly then why do you believe in it why bother having principles and rules in the first place supposedly given to you by the almighty if you're just going to change them whenever you feel like it i don't get this but

that's just my opinion. hello and welcome to the r t sports show with me kate partridge with a busy week of sporting action from russia and around the world and here are the top stories. it's no joke russia's world cup qualifier in northern ireland is postponed after two attempts to kick off were thwarted by heavy snow but fabio capello's men stay top of group. plus the european court

to scott seal a place in the playoffs but he has two games left to book the birth after an eventful round for the russian teams in the europa league. and the daddy of all fences olympic bronze medalist nikolai kobo the offer comes back from paternity leave to win individual gold at the star studded moscow saber. but first let's kick off with football as the russian national team flew out to belfast last week to play northern ireland in the fifth game of their world cup qualifying campaign but heavy snow meant that two attempts to get the match underway were lost to the elements of own poor feet documents a weekend of frustration for both fabio capello's men and their fans. there was much expectation as russia took to the training field ahead of their world cup qualifier with northern ireland they were top of the group with a one hundred percent record and hadn't conceded a goal in their four games so far the trip to belfast was going to be one of the

toughest of the campaign however head coach fabio capello was more worried about the wind and not the surf of the feet in concern for the rain this is for good motives the reason that the pitch i have to watch out there when we really lower however the wind was and the only thing capello should have been worried about some heavy snow which had been falling constantly for almost twenty four hours in the northern irish capital meant there was a race against time to get the pitch fit for this encounter. in belfast has certainly taken a turn for the worse with some of the worst conditions at this time of year in living memory all teams will tend to try and play again on saturday but with yet more snow expected this time may have to be played at a later date this was the first time a for international football match had been cancelled in belfast to given the circumstances it was completely understandable.